If your team wins what have you earned? What have you won?

Question

For a moment, lets think of Religion as a team sport.

You were born into a large group of people called Universal Man.

Yet as you grew older, you were introduced to different sports (religions). Your family played a certain sport, you learned about different sports in school and on weekends you visited friends participated in their families favorite sports. Eventually you joined a sport.

You might take it seriously and become a professional or you might just play people in your community. Of course...as is the nature of sports, some people are left out. They are left out because they are not good players or because they don't have the right equipment to participate in the sport.

And each team feels that the people on other teams don't know anything about the sport and are playing by the wrong rules. They criticize one (arguing over who goes to heaven and hell another and throw objects at the players of other team (war).

So if your team wins, what have you won?

Answer 1

NOTHING
There shouldn't be teams to begin with.
I am the only person in my family and local community that has explored many religious 'teams'. There are wrongs and rights, but fundamentally each religion is related through some essential ideas. There is a Supreme Being. People get so lost in the details that they become of the losers.
An explanation from my Koran. Chapter 16 verse 125
"whose controversies are carried on with no other object than that of fault-finding, and whose preaching only aims at carping at others."
29:46 And argue not with the People of the Book except by what is best, save such of them as act unjustly. But say: We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you, and our God and your God is One, and to Him we submit"
--Also from subtext
""It is a living belief in the Divine power, knowledge, and goodness that restrains man from walking the the ways of His displeasure. A sure and certain knowledge that every evil action leads to an evil consequence, that there is a supreme Being, Who know what is hid from human eyes and Whose moral law is effective where the moral force of society fails, the He is the source of all goodness and it is through goodness that man can have communion with Him, are the only effective restraints upon evil."

Therefore I conclude that the mere existence of the various religious teams is an evil that is supposed to pull us apart and to set us against one another.

Answer 2

You my friend are obviously not a Christian in the common idea of what a Christian is.

You are thinking entirely too much and to independently too ever be one.

Judging from the clarity and order of your comments, you are ready to move on.

If you are seeing this clearly on your own you are probably ready for a graduate course in reality and human relations.

I suggest that you get a book called the course in miracles. It somewhat exhaustively explains many of the ideas you are talking about in great detail.

It’s well worth the effort. I have worn out my first copy, and had to get a new one.

Love and blessings

Answer 3

On my team we allow anyone who wishes to join... they do not need skill, they do not need equipment... they do not even need to know the rules of the game... we will help them every step along the way and keep them safe from harm... they can progress at any pace that they are able and we will cheer them along...

And in the end when our team wins... we will win a glorious celebration upon our return home! And we will celebrate for a long time.

Answer 4

that is a very good way of thinking about it. but then ur introducing religion as a kind of life insurance. if people only are believing because they are afraid of the otherside, rather then believing cause they believe does that make it any better? i think people should believe what they want. u dont need to be part of a religious sect, reading the bible and goign to church wont send you to heaven, its faith in God. but i do like your analogy here, maybe it'll get people thinking.

Answer 5

To win anything this way is to seize a corrupt prize, many have found the wine of victory to be but bitter dregs. What prize has been gained if it's poisoning your children?

Answer 6

I'm not sure I understand how you win using this sports analogy. But in sports, all you ever really win are bragging rights.

Answer 7

the ability to answer questions without long details

Answer 8

very good question